Health Innovation Challenge Fund
Advancing Genetic Discoveries into Clinical Practice
Preliminary applications: 2 October 2009
Full applications, if invited: 14 December 2009
The Health Innovation Challenge Fund is a parallel funding partnership between the Wellcome Trust and the Department of Health to stimulate the creation of innovative healthcare products, technologies and interventions and to facilitate their development for the benefit of patients in the NHS and beyond.
The Health Innovation Challenge Fund is allocating £20M towards proposals to take into practical healthcare application the understanding of genetic variation on disease. International efforts such as the Human and Cancer Genome Projects, HapMap, Case Control and SNP Consortia have driven unprecedented progress in human genetics which the Health Innovation Challenge Fund, through this themed call, is channelling into patients treatment pathways and wellbeing. Health Innovation Challenge Fund will support work that accelerates the development of innovative technologies, devices and clinical procedures of relevance to the NHS. The fund will enable the translation of the best ideas arising from basic and clinical research into the development of new products, technologies and interventions and approaches from patient benefit.